Senior Product Manager, APIs

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26 Locations
Remote
60K-169K Annually
Senior level
HR Tech
Remote is the simple, secure platform to find, hire, manage, and pay talent anywhere, seamlessly and compliantly.
The Role
Lead technical product for payroll-focused APIs, owning end-to-end product and developer experience. Prototype and write code, define API contracts and versioning, partner with engineering and payroll/tax experts, solve root causes, drive adoption and hypercare, and document decisions and designs for cross-functional teams.
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About Remote
Remote is solving modern organizations’ biggest challenge – navigating global employment compliantly with ease. We make it possible for businesses of all sizes to recruit, pay, and manage international teams. With our core values at heart and future focused work culture, our team works tirelessly on ambitious problems, asynchronously, around the world. You can find Remoters working from 6 different continents (Antarctica left to go!) and all of our positions are fully remote.
With Innovation as one of the core values, we have built Automation and AI capabilities into the requirements for every role.
We encourage every member of the Remote team to bring their talents, experiences and culture to the table to help us build the best-in-class HR platform.
 
If you are energetic, curious, motivated and ambitious, be part of our world. Apply now and define the future of work!
What this job can offer you

This is an exciting time to join Remote as a Senior Product Manager, Payroll, an IC role for someone with genuinely high technical depth — trading management scope for depth. You'll partner with your Engineering Team Lead and Staff Engineers on architecture and technical direction as a peer, not an observer, forming your own technical opinions and prototyping to answer questions rather than scheduling a meeting about them.

Your mission is to own your product area end to end: not just the software, but the full experience customers and internal teams get from it, including the API surface other teams and integrators build on.


What you bring
  • Technical Direction: Partner with the Engineering Team Lead and Staff Engineers on architecture, design quality, and technical direction. Form independent, well-reasoned technical opinions and hold your own in design reviews as a peer.
  • Build to Learn: Prototype and write code to de-risk ideas, answer open questions, or ship small pieces yourself rather than defaulting to a meeting.
  • API & Integration Quality: Own products where APIs are the product surface. Design contracts, guide versioning and backwards compatibility, and own the developer experience for teams and systems integrating with your product.
  • Root Cause Problem-Solving: Sit with the specialists and ops teams doing the manual work, observe real workflows, and prioritize based on where the pain actually is. When systems disagree, fix the underlying cause rather than building a better reconciliation report.
  • End-to-End Ownership: Own adoption and hypercare, not just delivery — including whether what you shipped is actually being used months later.
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with payroll and tax experts on research and requirements, convene across teams, and onboard others into context generously.
  • Clear Communication: Document decisions and reasoning in writing (specs, Looms, proposals) so your thinking is inspectable and can be challenged.
Key Responsibilities 
  • Proficiency in Cursor and/or Claude Code is required. You must be able to autonomously build, debug, and ship functional code/prototypes, not just write specs.
  • Experience as product manager in a high-growth company
  • Experience working in payroll, HR, benefits, fintech, or similar
  • Great judgment making both strategic (what to prioritize) and tactical (feature scope) decisions
  • Demonstrable, self-driven results that have moved a product in the right direction
  • A strong sense of product design (UX)
  • A passion for products that just work, even if the problems they solve are boring and complicated
  • Outstanding communication and collaboration skills, including across different departments (e.g. business operations, sales, etc.) to ensure that we’re satisfying critical business requirements
  • Business-level proficiency writing and speaking English
  • Bonus: experience working remotely
Practicals
  • Location: For this position we welcome everyone to apply
  • Start date: As soon as possible
Remote Compensation Philosophy

Remote's Total Rewards philosophy is to ensure fair, unbiased compensation and fair equity pay along with competitive benefits in all locations in which we operate. We do not agree to or encourage cheap-labor practices and therefore we ensure to pay above in-location rates. We hope to inspire other companies to support global talent-hiring and bring local wealth to developing countries.

At first glance our salary bands seem quite wide - here is some context. At Remote we have international operations and a globally distributed workforce.  We use geo ranges to consider geographic pay differentials as part of our global compensation strategy to remain competitive in various markets while we hiring globally.

The base salary range for this full-time position is $59,900 to $168,500. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level and location, and our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay for the successful candidate in this role is dependent upon many factors such as location, transferable or job-related skills, work experience, relevant training, business needs, and market demands. The base salary range may be subject to change.
At Remote, we foster internal mobility as a key element of our culture of employee growth and development, supported by a compensation philosophy that guarantees pay equity and fairness. Therefore, all compensation changes associated with an internal move will be reviewed by the Total Rewards & People Enablement team on a case by case basis.

Application process
  1. AI Interview
  2. Interview with recruiter
  3. Interview with future manager
  4. Live session
  5. Interview with team members
  6. Bar Raiser Interview 
  7. Prior employment verification check 

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Benefits
Our full benefits & perks are explained in our handbook at remote.com/r/benefits. As a global company, each country works differently, but some benefits/perks are for all Remoters:
  • work from anywhere
  • flexible paid time off
  • flexible working hours (we are async)
  • 16 weeks paid parental leave
  • budget towards co-working spaces, learning and wellness (including gym memberships)
  • mental health support services
  • stock options
  • home office budget & IT equipment
How you’ll plan your day (and life)

We work async at Remote which means you can plan your schedule around your life (and not around meetings). Read more at remote.com/async.

You will be empowered to take ownership and be proactive. When in doubt you will default to action instead of waiting. Your life-work balance is important and you will be encouraged to put yourself and your family first, and fit work around your needs.

If that sounds like something you want, apply now!

How to apply
  1. Please fill out the form below and upload your CV with a PDF format.
  2. We kindly ask you to submit your application and CV in English, as this is the standardised language we use here at Remote.
  3. If you don’t have an up to date CV but you are still interested in talking to us, please feel free to add a copy of your LinkedIn profile instead.

Not only do we encourage folks from all ethnic groups, genders, sexuality, age, abilities, disability status and any other under-represented group to apply, but we prioritize a sense of belonging. We have 4 ERGs (Women, Disability, Queer, Minorities in Tech) who meet regularly with the People team. During your interviews and beyond, we ask & encourage anybody who needs an accommodation to request one from their recruiter.

We will ask you to voluntarily tell us your pronouns at interview stage, and you will have the option to answer our anonymous demographic questionnaire when you apply below. As an equal employment opportunity employer it’s important to us that our workforce reflects people of all backgrounds, identities, and experiences and this data will help us to stay accountable. We thank you for providing this data, if you chose to.

At Remote, we embrace AI as a valuable tool while prioritizing human creativity and authenticity. We look forward to meeting candidates who balance innovation with genuine expertise and experience. To learn more about Remote's AI guidelines check see here. 
Please note we accept applications on an ongoing basis. 

Skills Required

  • Proficiency with Cursor and/or Claude Code and ability to build, debug, and ship functional code/prototypes
  • Experience as a product manager in a high-growth company
  • Experience working in payroll, HR, benefits, fintech, or similar domain
  • Ability to provide technical direction and hold technical design reviews with engineers
  • Experience designing APIs, guiding versioning and backwards compatibility, and owning developer experience
  • Strong product design (UX) sensibility
  • Demonstrable, self-driven results that moved a product
  • Outstanding communication and cross-functional collaboration skills
  • Business-level proficiency in written and spoken English
  • Experience working remotely

Remote (Remote.com) Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Remote (Remote.com) and has not been reviewed or approved by Remote (Remote.com).

  • Fair & Transparent Compensation Pay is positioned as above-market with a stated 65th-percentile benchmarking approach and structured bands/compa-ratios for adjustments. Compensation equity checks (including role and gender fairness) and inclusion of statutory local allowances are described as part of the approach.
  • Leave & Time Off Breadth Time-off offerings are described as expansive, including unlimited PTO with a stated minimum, local public holidays, and periodic company-wide self-care days. Asynchronous hours and flexible scheduling are also highlighted as part of the time-off and flexibility experience.
  • Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits Benefits include home office support and equipment, wellness programs, mental-health support, and allowances for learning and professional development. Additional perks like meetups/workations and recognition-style perks are described as part of the total package.

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The Company
HQ: San Francisco, CA
1,004 Employees
Year Founded: 2019

What We Do

Talent is everywhere. Opportunity is not. Remote's mission is to create opportunity everywhere, empowering employers to find and hire the best talent, and enabling individuals to build financial and personal freedom. Remote is the all-in-one HR and payroll platform to find, hire, manage, and pay your entire team everywhere. Whether onboarding your first cross-border hire or scaling across continents, Remote delivers enterprise-grade compliance, intuitive design, and dedicated local expertise. With one platform for every contract, payslip, and regulation, Remote helps you grow without borders through our comprehensive set of core solutions including, HRIS, payroll, international employment, contractor management, and more.

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